rea by 2010
Christmas Island
none
Clipperton Island
none
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
none
Colombia
in December 2007, ICJ allocates San Andres, Providencia,
and Santa Catalina islands to Colombia under 1928 Treaty but does
not rule on 82 deg.W meridian as maritime boundary with Nicaragua;
managed dispute with Venezuela over maritime boundary and
Venezuelan-administered Los Monjes Islands near the Gulf of
Venezuela; Colombian-organized illegal narcotics, guerrilla, and
paramilitary activities penetrate all neighboring borders and have
caused Colombian citizens to flee mostly into neighboring countries;
Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, and the US assert various
claims to Bajo Nuevo and Serranilla Bank
Comoros
claims French-administered Mayotte and challenges France's
and Madagascar's claims to Banc du Geyser, a drying reef in the
Mozambique Channel; in May 2008, African Union forces are called in
to assist the Comoros military recapture Anjouan Island from rebels
who seized it in 2001
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
heads of the Great Lakes states
and UN pledged in 2004 to abate tribal, rebel, and militia fighting
in the region, including northeast Congo, where the UN Organization
Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), organized
in 1999, maintains over 16,500 uniformed peacekeepers; members of
Uganda's Lords Resistance Army forces continue to seek refuge in
Congo's Garamba National Park as peace talks with the Uganda
government evolve; the location of the boundary in the broad Congo
River with the Republic of the Congo is indefinite except in the
Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area; Uganda and DROC dispute Rukwanzi
island in Lake Albert and other areas on the Semliki River with
hydrocarbon potential; boundary commission continues discussions
over Congolese-administered triangle of land on the right bank of
the Lunkinda river claimed by Zambia near the DROC village of Pweto
Congo, Republic of the
the location of the boundary in the broad
Congo River with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is indefinite
except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area
Cook Islands
none
Coral Sea Islands
none
Costa Rica
the ICJ has given Costa Rica until January 2008 to reply
and Nicaragua until July 2008 to rejoin before rendering its
decision on the navigation, security, and commercial rights of Costa
Rican vesse
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